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Your current PMs will not be taken over to vBulletin. So that means if you want to keep them, you should take copies. I have introduced a new feature so you can email your PMs to yourself so that you can keep a copy, and it's a handy feature to have anyway even if we weren't moving. BEFORE YOU...

Due to the Talk CSI user database merging with Trek BBS, it's important that we sort out the user database now as much as possible to aid for a smooth transition to vBulletin. There is a very slim possibility that your name clashes with a Trek BBS user. In these cases I am contacting people...

This topic may be quite long, but I'd appreciate it if you could all read at least the first portions as things will happen that impact your membership of the messageboard. Nothing will happen without advance notice, but before then you need to be aware of upcoming changes so that you can better...

Despite appeals like the one above, people still don't always have working email address on their account. PLEASE make sure your email address is current. This is a hot issue because as we run a server we need to have up-to-date databases. If we email dead accounts we can be blacklisted by an...

Please ensure the email address on your account is correct, and that you can receive email at it. You can check what address you have on file here. It is very important that your email address work. If you have a spam filtering system, please also be sure to add forums@csifiles.com to your...

First the good news. I am committed to keeping the server up and running, and covering all eventualities. To that end I will soon be running daily backups of all the databases. In short, that means that the Talk CSI will be backed up daily on the server. Then if a disaster was to befall it, the...

Our email system was compromised yesterday, meaning we were used to send a lot of spam. I've stopped the spam now, and as Get Desperate! seems to have been the source we've shut it down temporarily. I am manually letting outgoing email out in batches, so you may find post notifications come in...

Re: Server changes [again] I've now made another change, a bigger one in fact, and it's now time to see how this one goes. Again, if you find any odd problems please let me know. Early indications are that performance is much better.

These have been deactivated, as things got very slow. Although things are still a big sluggish tonight.

I have changed stuff behind the scenes which will hopefully continue to improve the speed of Talk CSI. If you notice any abnormal behaviour now, please private message me giving me as much details on what the problem was and what steps you took to cause it. Thank you.

A security hole has been found in the Adobe Flash player (aka Macromedia Flash) that could allow a malicious party to take control of a user's PC through a Flash file. It affects version 8.0.24.0 and earlier. You can find out what version you are on here...

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Update: we have been removed from Spamhaus's blacklist, and Aplus has shut down the correct website this time. Full email access should be restored.

As you may have noticed, the sites have been down for over a day. This is due to a combination of Spamhaus and our ISP Aplus.net. As discovered on Saturday, Spamhaus incorrectly blacklisted our server as being used for spam and belonging to a company that we have no association with. This has...

Email from Talk CSI will now come from forums@csifiles.com. If you have any sort of spam filtering system, please add this address to your whitelist to ensure that you receive emails safely. If you utilise a system whereby the sender must click a link for that email to be accepted, you will...

Firstly, sorry for the amount of downtime over the past few days. It's been necessary to carry out a lot of work on the TrekBBS database and often that involved having to shut down TalkCSI. I'm glad to say that said database is in much better shape now, and that should in turn hopefully lead to...

I'm pleased to announce that CSI Files and Talk CSI are now on our brand new server. If you're seeing this, you're already here! If you experience any problems, please post in QSF.

Following on from my recent announcement we're going to be moving server this Saturday. I've flipped the order back around again, and CSI Files and Talk CSI will be moving over to the server first. To reiterate what this means: CSI Files There should be no discernable interruption, and once...

margburger made a very good point in QSF, and that is it's CSI season finales week in the US. So any downtime, however short, would be more inconvenient right now. So I've postponed the move for a while. I'm going to do the Trek sites first, then come back for CSI later. :)

The reliability of our current server has fallen recently, and you may have noticed some periods of downtime or slow responsiveness. This concerns us, as we want the best reliability possible, so we are going to move to a brand new server soon. Hopefully there will be very little impact to you...